Abstract
National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) has successfully planned and executed several projects directed toward increasing their competitiveness in the shipbuilding marketplace. Among these has been the common goal of implementing outfit design and manufacturing processes that will result in performance improvements. Previous outfit projects, such as MARITECH Ship Factory Transformation Project and Parametric Standard Machinery Units, have focused on key improvement strategies in targeted shipbuilding process areas with positive results. This paper describes the pilot implementation project that was undertaken to establish an onblock and on-board design and construction process. This is a process by which interim product family components are competitively assembled and installed for new construction shipbuilding. Most of the projects completed by NASSCO thus far have been broadly based, focusing on overall development of standard products and processes. This project placed a further focus on these, along with manufacturing processes, workstation definition, production information, and multiskilled tradespeople. These combined elements have been seen as the logical next steps toward process competitiveness.
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